Discover the tools and concepts in Microsoft Purview for managing and protecting sensitive data. Understand how to keep data secure and compliant throughout its lifecycle across different environments.
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
- Understand the importance of data security and compliance.
- Discuss Microsoft's approach to protecting and managing sensitive data using Microsoft Purview.
- Define key concepts related to data protection, lifecycle management, and compliance.
- Identify Microsoft Purview tools and solutions that support data protection and governance strategies.
Create and manage sensitive information types.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Recognize the difference between built-in and custom sensitivity labels.
- Configure sensitive information types with exact data match-based classification.
- Implement document fingerprinting.
- Create custom keyword dictionaries.
Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels enable you to classify and protect sensitive data throughout your organization, including in the cloud and on devices. This module covers how to classify and protect sensitive information to ensure its security and compliance.
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
- Understand the basics of Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365.
- Create and publish sensitivity labels to classify and safeguard data.
- Configure encryption settings with sensitivity labels for improved data security.
- Implement auto-labeling for consistent data classification and protection.
- Use the Microsoft Purview data classification dashboard to monitor sensitivity label usage.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) helps safeguard sensitive information by monitoring and preventing accidental data leaks across your organization's digital platforms. In this module, you'll learn how to plan, deploy, and adjust DLP policies to protect sensitive data in your organization, ensuring security without disrupting daily work.
When you finish with this module, you'll be able to:
- Understand the purpose and benefits of Microsoft Purview DLP.
- Plan, design, simulate, and deploy DLP policies.
- Apply Adaptive Protection for dynamic, risk-based data controls.
- Use DLP analytics to improve policy effectiveness.
- Monitor, investigate, and refine policies using alerts and activity tracking.
This module guides you through implementing data security with Microsoft Purview to enhance data protection and comply with data loss prevention standards within your organization.
In this module you learn how to:
- Create sensitive information types.
- Implement sensitivity labels.
- Apply auto-labeling policies.
- Enforce data loss prevention policies.

Syllabus

Introduction to information security and compliance in Microsoft Purview
- Introduction
- Foundations of data security and compliance with Microsoft Purview
- Know your data
- Protect your data
- Prevent data loss
- Govern your data
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Create and manage sensitive information types
- Introduction
- Sensitive information type overview
- Compare built-in versus custom sensitive information types
- Create and manage custom sensitive information types
- Create and manage exact data match sensitive info types
- Implement document fingerprinting
- Describe named entities
- Create a keyword dictionary
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Create and configure sensitivity labels with Microsoft Purview
- Introduction
- Sensitivity label overview
- Create and configure sensitivity labels and label policies
- Configure encryption with sensitivity labels
- Implement auto-labeling policies
- Track and evaluate sensitivity label usage in Microsoft Purview
- Module assessment
- Summary
Prevent data loss with Microsoft Purview
- Introduction
- Data loss prevention overview
- Plan and design DLP policies
- Understand DLP policy deployment and simulation mode
- Create and manage DLP policies
- Integrate Adaptive Protection with DLP
- Use DLP analytics (preview) to identify data risks
- Understand DLP alerts and activity tracking
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Implement information protection and data loss prevention with Microsoft Purview
- Introduction
- Exercise - Configure your environment for administration
- Exercise - Create a sensitive info type
- Exercise - Create and publish a sensitivity label
- Exercise - Create a data loss prevention (DLP) policy
- Summary